Nancy Lorenz
My mother was a writer. She used to type short stories on an old manual Royal typewriter, and send them out to women's magazines. I still have a large envelope of her stories, and one with a vintage rejection slip from a popular women's magazine of the 1960's. She churned the stories out!
My mother inspired me to write, and I did. When I was twelve, I got a half page article published in a tween magazine, and got paid $25 for it! I wrote two plays and cast them, and invited the neighborhood kids to seats set up in the basement of my house. I charged a nickel for the performances. One was my rendition of "Sleeping Beauty," and another was a pirate play, although that one was never quite finished and had no ending.
As an adult though, I wrote movie and TV scripts, but didn't sell any. After getting my Masters degree, I published an academic article on the arts, and then switched to fiction. The rest is history - publication!
My mother inspired me to write, and I did. When I was twelve, I got a half page article published in a tween magazine, and got paid $25 for it! I wrote two plays and cast them, and invited the neighborhood kids to seats set up in the basement of my house. I charged a nickel for the performances. One was my rendition of "Sleeping Beauty," and another was a pirate play, although that one was never quite finished and had no ending.
As an adult though, I wrote movie and TV scripts, but didn't sell any. After getting my Masters degree, I published an academic article on the arts, and then switched to fiction. The rest is history - publication!
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